The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 49National Geographic Society, 1926 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... turned with the wind , the roar of his engine ebbed rapidly away , swelled again as , somewhere out in the darkness , he banked toward the field , and sank to a throttled rumble in the glide . Then silence , agonizing silence , save for ...
... turned with the wind , the roar of his engine ebbed rapidly away , swelled again as , somewhere out in the darkness , he banked toward the field , and sank to a throttled rumble in the glide . Then silence , agonizing silence , save for ...
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... turned on ; as long as the sun shines on the valve the beacon is cut off . ing the shadows far back toward the bor- der ( see illustration , page 16 ) . Against the paled stars a vague outline of the onrushing plane became visible ...
... turned on ; as long as the sun shines on the valve the beacon is cut off . ing the shadows far back toward the bor- der ( see illustration , page 16 ) . Against the paled stars a vague outline of the onrushing plane became visible ...
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... turned toward me . " Didn't feel any effects of being hurt , so groped for my flashlight in the cockpit , turned out the lights , and stumbled down the hill to the beacon tower . I regret to report that the plane is one of the most ...
... turned toward me . " Didn't feel any effects of being hurt , so groped for my flashlight in the cockpit , turned out the lights , and stumbled down the hill to the beacon tower . I regret to report that the plane is one of the most ...
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... turned my head for an instant to scan the hillside for coyotes . At that precise moment a stalled automobile loomed up dead in our path and we narrowly averted a collision . The alarmed owner came wriggling out in frantic haste from ...
... turned my head for an instant to scan the hillside for coyotes . At that precise moment a stalled automobile loomed up dead in our path and we narrowly averted a collision . The alarmed owner came wriggling out in frantic haste from ...
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... turning , as it winds up the sides of the canyon . This photograph covers territory on the exact summit of the Sierra Nevada at the crossing of the Southern Pacific Railroad . Tunnel No. 6 is the Summit Tunnel ; Summit Station is to the ...
... turning , as it winds up the sides of the canyon . This photograph covers territory on the exact summit of the Sierra Nevada at the crossing of the Southern Pacific Railroad . Tunnel No. 6 is the Summit Tunnel ; Summit Station is to the ...
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Page 72 - Yet to be come at by the breeze; He did not cease, but cooed and cooed, And somewhat pensively he wooed; He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin and never ending; Of serious faith and inward glee, That was the song, the song for me.
Page 306 - dust. The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes, or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two, is gone.
Page 67 - I heard a stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day; His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze; He did not cease, but cooed and cooed, And somewhat pensively he wooed; He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin and never ending; Of serious faith and inward glee, That was the song, the song for me.
Page 174 - Paracelsus": Are there not . . . dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of a diver, One—when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge. One—when, a prince, he rises with his pearl? The
Page 304 - with whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years—
Page 549 - and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate can e'er return.
Page 571 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out"; and
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Page 191 - To enjoy true happiness, we must travel into a very far country, and even out of ourselves, for the Pearl we seek for is
Page 611 - summit was ever seen, we took the liberty of giving it a name. It will appear on our maps as Mount Logan, in honor of Sir William E. Logan, founder and long director of the Geological Survey of Canada.